Home made interconnect

[satanfriendly]

believe he set his own site for cable making

http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/diycables.html

I thought TNT-Audio were of Italian origin? Ray is probably too interested in playing cricket to start a web-site!

[youngdand]

Maybe got wires crossed then.

the cables on that site are very good though.

[awkwardbydesign]

believe he set his own site for cable making

http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/diycables.html

I thought TNT-Audio were of Italian origin? Ray is probably too interested in playing cricket to start a web-site!

Italian origin, but many contributors, including English.
I have made the XLO type ICs and I like them a lot, although PC-OCC solid silver in PTFE, plaited, cotton sleeved, with Valab carbon fibre sleeved RCAs sound better from the DAC to the TVC. Although plaiting (or braiding for some)can be slow, it has nothing on the XLO spiralling!

[cafe latte]

Braiding sure does take some patience.

I have made a braided mains flex for my ariston RD11s using the silver cable i have put up in the for sale section. bu i didn't make it as an upgrade, just needed a longer flex. I use a bt mains conditioner for running the trurntable and preamp, so i doubt very much any cable after that is going to make much of a difference.

these conditioners are a bargin for anyone interested, they turn up on ebay for about £30 and they kick out a rock solid 240v AC. they are used to prevent mains spikes on isdn equipment.

I made a set of the CAT5 speaker cables on TNT's site, and they were pretty good to be honest.

Ok big caution here!!! Cat 5 speaker cables can kill your amp or at the very least send it into parasytic ossilations, infact very few amps out there will perform normally when you connect such highly capacitive cables up. I made a set for my esl 57s as they are the ONLY speakers were highly capacitive cables might be a good thing. Anyway I stopped using them when I measured the heatsink of my amp which was made specifically for the difficult load esl 57s present and even this very rubust amp was running 15 degrees c hotter when I used the cat 5 cables!!! Highly capacitive speaker cable has no benefit at all with regular speakers (not esls), there are some benefits with older designs of esl like the esl 57, but the negative effect that they have on the amp with increased distortion and the possibility of a dead amp far outways the possible gains. I kid not any differences you may have heard was most likely a very unhappy amp.
Regards
CL

[youngdand]

will look up the spiraling. was reading a little about the x3.0 on it earlier. seeing as i have about well 900 meters of this silver hookup wire it may be worth making a few pairs up.

[awkwardbydesign]

Braiding sure does take some patience.

I have made a braided mains flex for my ariston RD11s using the silver cable i have put up in the for sale section. bu i didn't make it as an upgrade, just needed a longer flex. I use a bt mains conditioner for running the trurntable and preamp, so i doubt very much any cable after that is going to make much of a difference.

these conditioners are a bargin for anyone interested, they turn up on ebay for about £30 and they kick out a rock solid 240v AC. they are used to prevent mains spikes on isdn equipment.

I made a set of the CAT5 speaker cables on TNT's site, and they were pretty good to be honest.

Ok big caution here!!! Cat 5 speaker cables can kill your amp or at the very least send it into parasytic ossilations, infact very few amps out there will perform normally when you connect such highly capacitive cables up. I made a set for my esl 57s as they are the ONLY speakers were highly capacitive cables might be a good thing. Anyway I stopped using them when I measured the heatsink of my amp which was made specifically for the difficult load esl 57s present and even this very rubust amp was running 15 degrees c hotter when I used the cat 5 cables!!! Highly capacitive speaker cable has no benefit at all with regular speakers (not esls), there are some benefits with older designs of esl like the esl 57, but the negative effect that they have on the amp with increased distortion and the possibility of a dead amp far outways the possible gains. I kid not any differences you may have heard was most likely a very unhappy amp.
Regards
CL

I second that; my Velleman(ish) 90w valve amp was very unhappy with the cat5 cable. I haven't tried them since. Went back to monocrystal solid core Vecteur cables, which I like.

[awkwardbydesign]

will look up the spiraling. was reading a little about the x3.0 on it earlier. seeing as i have about well 900 meters of this silver hookup wire it may be worth making a few pairs up.

I have made X-1.5 and X-3.0 using wirewrap wire, as it is cheap. The X-3.0 is much easier! I made a long board to raise and stretch the plastic core, wrapped one set of wires ALL the way, held it down with tabs of masking tape while I wound the second set around that, and covered the whole thing with heatshrink (I have reels of the stuff!). Recently I made some plaited silver ICs which I like, but haven't done much swapping and checking as it is hard to get behind my racks.

[SammyMac]

For my CD players, i have made homemade silver interconnects out of Neotech 24awg silver wire with great results.

Turntable i bought a brand name (1metre -3.38ft) Atlas Equator MK2. I have thought of replacing the plugs on them with Eichmann or Switchcraft. The Atlas claim 54pf/m capacitance.

Jaycar, (aussie store) i tried the microphone cable, for the cheap, price, its rather a great cable, ( has silver plated copper contacts), no idea of its compacitiance though.